What 𝥠 means
It marks the largest diagonal in the series that moves away. The front-wall plane faces the signer; the floor plane is horizontal. “Between” describes a path linking those planes diagonally, while “largest” selects this size in the movement series. SignWriting places handshapes, movement, and other sign details in a two-dimensional cluster, so this mark is one component, not a complete sign. A font can draw it without laying out the surrounding cluster.
Valerie Sutton began developing movement notation for dance in 1966 and adapted it for writing sign languages in 1974. During 1975–1980, the sign-language branch shifted away from dance notation; early detailed forms used videotape. By 1982, writers used three SignWriting styles. The wider system can also record mime, sports, and gesture analysis.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𝥠 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Sutton SignWriting block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𝥠
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- signwriting · swu · fsw · diagonal movement · movement away · between planes
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𝥠\1D960Codes and encoding1 code points
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